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  1. Re:Google should then provide signed certs on Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs · · Score: 1

    First they have the gaul to ask us to purchase a domain name, and now this?

  2. PARTY ZOMBIES! on Left 4 Dead 2 Announced For November · · Score: 1

    Between L4D2 happening in New Orleans, and Dead Rising 2 happening in Vegas, this holiday season is going to be packed with zombies that want to party.

  3. Re:You could roll your own. on SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput? · · Score: 1

    I haven't directly diagnosed this issue since 10.3, but it still might be an issue:

    OSX does support SMB pretty well (they actually use the samba suite under the hood for client and server). There's a catch though. In MacOS (classic and X), there are two parts to the file: the "data fork" (what you would normally think of as the file), and the "resource fork" (contains meta data, and executable code for "classic" programs). Over SMB, the resource forks are stored as a separate file; example.txt's resource fork would be stored as ._example.txt.

    This by itself is not a problem. The problem is that many OSX programs will lock the resource fork, but never unlock it. AFP never has an issue with this (I assume its built into the protocol, as it is into HFS). The net result is that if you're running multiple users trying to successively modify a file, they're going to get locking errors when they go to save.

    I ran into this issue trying to maintain an all Linux development environment for a team of web developers. In the end I had to just get a dedicated OSX box so all the mac clients could work happily. Also, netatalk was an option, but at the time it was too immature, and did things like enforce a small (15?) character filename limit.

  4. Use as many as you can get your hands on. on Choosing a Good DNSBL · · Score: 1

    I seldom trust the results of a single RBL. The best technique, and what SpamAssassin does, is to check against a ton of them. I myself have gotten my own server listed on a handful of blacklists, but not from sending out email. I just happened to be in the same Class C block as another server that had been a relay over a year ago. This became a problem with mail servers that would block your mail off of a single BL hit. I gave up trying to negotiate with the BL and my SP (Rackspace) and just changed the default outgoing IP on my load balancer -- probably not an option many people stumble across.

    Just make sure that despite using them, you don't trust them as absolute.

    But back on topic, I've always been a big fan of SpamCop.

  5. They've been doing this for years. on Steve Jobs Personally Resolves Customer Complaint · · Score: 1

    I've known two people who have both done this when they got an unsatisfactory response from AppleCare. It's always the same: next day an assistant to Steve Jobs gives them a call, apologies, overnights whatever will repair the situation, and promises to fix the situation that caused you to get angry enough to email Steve Jobs to begin with. However, now that the cat is out of the bag, this might not be as much of a reliable last discourse any longer.

  6. pr0filer @ Defcon 7 anyone? on The Hacker Profiling Project · · Score: 1

    I remember this being tried in 1999 with the 'pr0filer' project they revealed at Defcon 7. I remember lots of boos, people filling up their database with garbage, and it eventually sinking into nothingness.

  7. Global dimming on Combatting Global Warming With Artificial Volcanos? · · Score: 4, Informative

    This concept is also known as Global dimming, and has already been occurring for a while now. In fact, it's one of the reasons we haven't noticed global warming as much. A very unsurprising downside to global dimming is that it totally mucks with rain fall, casting some areas into complete drought.

    I recommend anyone that's interested in this concept check out the NOVA on this issue.

  8. Kid Ikarus on Wii? on Super Smash Brothers Wii, Featuring Solid Snake · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I was wondering who this fellow was: http://media.revolution.ign.com/media/748/748545/i mg_3595421.html

    Is it Kid Ikarus? Are we looking forward to a 3d version of Kid Ikarus finally?

  9. Re:How is this different? on Nintendo President Vows Cheap Games · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While the summary doesn't make it immediately apparently, the article states that this is for more than the downloadable content:

    Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo of Japan, told me last week that while the company has no control over what its partners ask for their games, "I cannot imagine any first party title could be priced for more than $50."

    And one would assume that the industry would generally follow the lead of the publisher... generally.

  10. Download a third party codec on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are lots of third party codecs available for most other file formats. For xvid, try http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17151 . WMV? Flip4Mac (which you can even get straight from microsoft now).

  11. How about stunnel? on SSH Tunnels How-to? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You might also look into stunnel. It acts more like a traditional daemon with conf file, and also has the neat feature of being able to turn any service into its standard ssl equivilent, if that exists, which is useful for things like imap/pop/http.

  12. LOTS of things break bookmarks. on 15 Important Tech Concepts In 2006 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ajax is not the first thing to break bookmarks. Hell, POST DATA, used very regularly, will break your bookmarks as well. Plus, google maps still gives you a dedicated link you can click on which will reload the page with the real link if you really need to bookmark it or send it to others.

  13. Re:Irony: Tulane Eliminating Civil Engineering on Tulane University to Reduce Engineering School · · Score: 1

    Although I'm without hard numbers, very few Tulane grads stay in the city. Most are a quick in, hello, and good bye. My advisor at Tulane seemed, well, shocked to hear that I was staying in the city. He indicated that it was very uncommon, only a handful stayed.

  14. Faking it. on Tulane University to Reduce Engineering School · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a Tulane CS grad -- I think they're faking it. Tulane's CS program at least has always suckled at the teet of Netscape and Yahoo due to former students, like David Filo, being at the helm. This seems like yet another scheme to just pull money -- which honestly, they could use at this point -- out of their corporate sponsors.

  15. They've already been recruiting. on Nielsen Adapting To Modern TV-Watching · · Score: 1

    For those unaware, Nielsen has been allowing people to sign up directly on their TiVo's for a while now.

  16. LFS! Finally! on Apache 2.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I've been waiting for LFS support in Apache for so long! OSX exports all of it's NFS shares as 64 bit, which has the adverse issue of any readdir() call returning empty. mod_autoindex always returned a completely empty directory listing.

  17. Re:Just use IMAP on Email On Both the Desktop and the Laptop? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seriously, this is the correct answer. I use IMAP from every computer I use. It's not nearly as flakey as past history might lead you to believe, it supports SSL, and just works. As a bonus, most webmail clients use IMAP as their back ends (beats having to manage mail spools yourself), so if you log into your webmail you get to see the exact same messages as on your desktop and laptop. Almost any serious mail provider offers it, and most actively encourage its use.

    All the other hackish suggestions offered don't concern you. IMAP does what you describe, and it's already built in and ready to use.

  18. Re:Mirror on Rejected Xbox 360 Prototype Designs · · Score: 1

    Too bad the mirror does not host its own images! It links off-site! Why bother even posting it?

  19. At current exchange rates? on PS3 Price, Compatibility In Question · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's more like $350. Even google agrees. $50 is going to be quite a difference when it comes to console pricing too.

  20. Watch the segment online on Hydrogen Stored in Safe High Density Pellets · · Score: 1
  21. Re:WTF! Yeah it is cost effective! on Municipal WiFi Costs Outweigh Benefits · · Score: 2, Informative

    10 * $1,500 is $15,000, not $150,000. You'd need at least 100 by your math.

  22. Re:The Register says not. on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Things may have changed from the original base stations, but back then the stations were running a 200Mhz x86 AMD.

  23. Re:Still no cure for... on IE7 Will Have Tabbed Browsing · · Score: 1

    Thats what you get from the Nintendo generation.

  24. Re:What about titin? Non-broken tinyurl link on Longest Chemical Name: 64,060 letters · · Score: 1

    Slash seems to still break long URLs for some reason. http://tinyurl.com/5avfq

  25. What about titin? on Longest Chemical Name: 64,060 letters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why doesn't Titin have the longest official chemical name? As a 27,000 amino acid protein, I think it has a bit of an edge.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cm d= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12187564&dopt=Abstrac t